Virtual Opportunities
The Hartt School Community Division is proud to bring you virtual, interactive experiences that you and your student can participate in from the comfort of your own home.
Rock the Audition - Spring 2022
Saturdays, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Are you a teen who wants to master the most in-demand genre of musical theatre?
The Hartt School is excited to continue the Rock the Audition programming this spring! The Hartt Community Division is excited to again offer Rock the Audition, a training programs created by RTA Founder/CEO Sheri Sanders, who is known world-wide as a "rock-music guru," and who has been changing the face of how musical theatre performers prepare for auditions over a decade.
RTA is an 8-week training program for singers, covering every style of popular music. Singers are taught how to choose, vocally style, interpret, and act Motown, 70s Folk/Rock, Disco, 80s Pop/Rock, Contemporary Pop/Rock, Hip-Hop/R&B, Country, and "Poetic" music for the purpose of successfully auditioning for rock musicals. This program been taught at over 80 American universities and in the UK.
RTA returns to HCD for Spring 2022 and will be taught remotely (via Zoom) by veteran instructor Jessye DeSilva (BoCo at Berklee and HCD faculty)! Each week students will perform a song cut, chosen by them from Sheri's musicnotes.com cuts*, after studying her online source material. This information will change the way you think of performing popular music and will be an unforgettable learning experience. Space is extremely limited, with only 12 slots open for teen performers in grades 9-12. *
| March | 26 |
| April | 9, 16, 23, 30 |
| May | 7, 14, 21 |
Registration Deadline is March 11, 2022.
*Students will be required to independently purchase 8 "short cuts" from musicnotes.com for use in the course ($5.79 each) as well as download the free app "Music Notes - Sheet Music Player" (which offers free piano accompaniment tracks and transposition ability for purchased cuts).
Young Composers Project: Summer Edition
In Person: July 18-22, 9:30-4:30 pm
Remote: July 25-Aug. 5 (afternoons Mon.-Fri.)
This intensive program is designed for students in grades 7–12 who are passionate about writing music. Students will learn composition techniques, approaches to media scoring while actively developing music for film, TV, and/or video game scenes. Students will share a sampling of their projects in a presentation for family and friends on the last day of the program.